OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor.

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.

An aged Burgundy runs with a beardless Port. I cherish the fancy that Port speaks sentences of wisdom, Burgundy sings the inspired Ode.

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer . . .

SERIAL, n. A literary work, usually a story that is not true, creeping through several issues of a newspaper or magazine.

ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.